Eliza Mills

c1816-1892

Eliza was baptised on the 27^th October 1816, at St Mary, Potsgrove, Bedfordshire, the daughter of William (a Bailiff) and Ann Paxton (nee Pitkin) who were married on the 29^th December 1803, at St Mary, Woburn, Bedfordshire.

Eliza’s siblings were:

James, baptised 10^th June 1804, at St Mary, Woburn

Thomas, born c1805 (no baptism found)

Charlotte, baptised 1^st January 1807, in Battlesden

Marianne, (aka Mary Ann) baptised 1809, in Battlesden

William, baptised 27^th October 1811, in Battlesden

George, baptised 16^th July 1813, in Battlesden

Jonas, baptised 24^th May 1816, in Potsgrove

Eliza married in 1838

Marriage details:

Place: Bicester, Oxfordshire

Date: 7^th August 1838

Groom: William Mills, full age, bacheror, occupation, Chemist, abode, Bicester, Market End

Bride: Eliza Paxton, full age, spinster, abode, Longford, Bicester

Fathers: William Mills, a Gentleman and William Paxton, a Farmer

Witnesses: William Paxton and George Paxton

William and Eliza had the following five children:

Eleanor, born 1839, in Bicester, Oxfordshire

William Faulkner born 8^th January 1841, baptised R. C. 7^th January 1842, in Bicester (dad a Chemist, abode, Market Place)

James Paxton, born 25^th December 1841, baptised Jonas Paxton 26^th January 1842, in Bicester (dad a Chemist, abode, Market Place. (Died aged 0 in 1842, recorded as Jonas Paxton on FreeBMD and James Paxton on the GRO webside)

Jessey Harriott born c1843

Henry Langford born 1845 (died aged 5 months, buried 27^th September 1845, in Bicester)

The 1841 census records William Mills (25), a Chemist, living in Market Place, Bicester, with Eliza (25) and their children, Eleanor (2), (recorded as Helen on ancestry) and William (5 months)

The 1851 census records Eliza (35) and her daughters, Eleanor (11) and Jessie (8), living at Langford Farm, Bicester, with her parents, Ann (67) and William Paxton (67), a Farmer of 500 acres, employing 14 Labourers and 3 servants.

Eliza’s father, William Paxton, died aged 76, on the 11^th December 1859, in Bicester.

In 1861 Eliza (45), a Fundholder, her daughters Eleanor Mills (21) and Jessie Mills (18), were living in Swan Street, Bicester, with Eliza’s widowed mother, Ann Paxton (77), a retired Farmer, her sister Mary Flint (51), her sister-in-law, Ann Paxton (60) and a house servant.

Eliza’s mother Ann Paxton, died aged 80, in 1864, in Bicester

In 1871 Eliza (56) was recorded as an Annuitant, living in St Mary Hill, Newbury, Berkshire, with her married sister Mary Ann Flint (61), her brother-in-law, Henry Flint (63), a Coal Merchant and two domestic servants.

The 1881 census records Eliza (64), living in Craven Street, Newbury, Berkshire, with her married daughter Eleanor Tucker (41), her granddaughters Jessie Tucker (18) and Jessie Slocock (12) and her nieces Jessie Paxton (30) and Hester Paxton (29). All were recorded as Ladies.

In 1891 Eliza (75) was living on her own means. She was still living in Craven Street Newbury, Berkshire. Her granddaughter Jessie Tucker (28) and her nieces Jessie Paxton (41) and Hester Paxton (38) were still living with her.

Eliza died aged 76, on the 14^th August 1892, she was laid to rest in a private grave, in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th August.

(Eliza’s granddaughter, Jessie Louisa Martin (nee Tucker) died in 1936, she was laid to rest with Eliza on the 20^th January. Her husband Robert Martin, died the following year and was laid to rest with Eliza and Jessie, on the 28^th April 1937)

Newbury Weekly News

Dated 18^th August 1892

MILLS – August 14, at 9 Craven-street, Eliza, widow of the late William Mills of Bicester, and the daughter of the late William Paxton, of Longford, near Bicester, Oxon.

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